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BARTON CALM IN OUTLOOK; Head of Lion Oil Refining Not Pessimistic on Industry

Declaring that he was not pessimistic over the outlook for the petroleum industry in 1938, Colonel T. H. Barton, president of the Lion Oil Refining Company of Arkansas, said the demand for petroleum products should suffer as little as any of the essential commodities if the business recession continued.

January 03, 1938

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